Just a day ahead of the Bihar Board Class 10 result 2018, over 40,000 answer sheets went missing from SS Balika Inter School in Gopalganj district of Bihar. The school authorities lodged an FIR only after Bihar Board officials demanded for the same as they needed to verify the evaluation of some answer sheets.

Patna: In another bizarre incident being reported from Bihar, just a day ahead of Bihar Board Class 10 result 2018, bags containing thousands of answer sheets went missing from SS Balika Inter School in Gopalganj district. While some reports say that around 10,000 answer sheets are missing, others report that up to 42,400 might be untraceable. The case becomes more curious as the school was ‘in the dark’ about the huge stash of missing answer sheets and sprang into action only after the authorities needed to see the papers.

The Bihar Board Class 10 answer sheets of thousands of students were kept inside the school campus after it was checked and the results prepared. The incident of ‘missing’ sheets came to light after the Bihar School Examination Board demanded a few answer sheets from the school authorities. Unable to procure the same, the school informed that the answer sheets have been missing. Subsequently, a First Information Report (FIR) was also lodged by the school authorities.

Bags containing 42,400 answer sheets of the Board exam have gone missing from a district of Bihar, just a day ahead of the results pic.twitter.com/yCRbDY3OMn

It is suspected that there was some foul play in the Bihar Board Class 10 answer sheet checking process and thus, when the copies were demanded by the Bihar Board, a few teachers along with school authorities stole these answers sheets from the storage.

Bihar Board Class 10 result 2018: School ‘loses’ over 40,000 answer sheetsDescription:Just a day ahead of the Bihar Board Class 10 result 2018, over 40,000 answer sheets went missing from SS Balika Inter School in Gopalganj district of Bihar. The school authorities lodged an FIR only after Bihar Board officials demanded for the same as they needed to verify the evaluation of some answer sheets.Times Now